Improvement in devices for unloadimg or storing  freight



y 3 H. "A. WHITNEY,

Device for Unloadingpr Storing Freight. N6. 48,330. Patented June 20, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. WHITNEY, 0 BROOKLYN, NEW YO IMPROVEMENT lN DEVICES FOR UNLOADIMG 0R STORING FREIGHT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent, No. 48,330, dated June 20, 1865.

partly in section; Fig. 2, an end view of the same, also partly in section.

Similarletters of reference indicate like parts. This invention relates to a new and useful device for unloading, storing, and loading freight, merchandise, 850., and hasfor its ob- ;ject economy in labor, the saving of time, and

a greater facility than usual in removing goods from carts and trucks and the loading or placing of them thereon.

The invention consists in the employment or use of an elevated way or track arranged in such a manner that it may be inclined more or less from a horizontal plane, and using in connection therewith a car with an adjustable platform suspended to it, all arranged as hereinafter fully shown and described.

-A A represent two ways, on which a car or truck, B, 'is fitted and allowed to move freely. These ways are fitted at one end in stirrups a a at the upper part of the doorway of a building, and the ways nearthe opposite end are fitted in stirrups b b, the upper endsof which are connected by a bar, 0, having a chain, D, attached to it, which passes over pulleys c c at the upper part of a framing,- E, and is attached at its lower end to a Windlass, F. This framing E is erected on the sidewalk F near the curbstone, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

G is a Windlass, which is suspended from the car or truck B, said Windlass being in a suitable frame, H; and I is a platform, which is attached to the rope J of the Windlass. The car or truck 13 is moved in either directionthat is to say, toward the doorway of the buildin g, or from the latter toward theframing E, by inclining the ways A through the medium of the Windlass F, the end of the ways at the framing E being depressed'when it is desired to have the car or truck pass from the building toward the curbstone, and said end of the ways elevated when it is. desired to have the car or truck pass from the framing-E toward the building. Thus, by this simple means, the goods or merchandise may be conveyed from a building or store to the outer edge of the sidewalk to be loaded upon a cart, or taken from the cart and conveyed to the building or store. i

The platform I is raised and lowered through the medium of the windlass G, and thegoods are conveyed to and from thebuilding or store on this platform, which is lowered to a convenient position to receive the goods from a cart ortruclr and then elevatedorlfaisedmnd the outer end of the ways raised to cause the goods tobe conveyed to the building or store. In loading a cart or truck from a-building or store the same process is gone through with the platform, receiving the goods in the doorway and then elevated andthe outer end of the ways depressed to cause the car, and plat-- form to move from the building orstore to the cart or truck. v

I would remark that the goods may be conveyed to the back ofa store by simplyadding waysto the inner end of the ones described, a supplemental framing bein gemployed to sustain them.

By this'invention a cart or truck may be placed with its side parallel with the curbstone, for the purpose of loading or unloading, and the street consequently will not be obstructed, as is now the case in consequence of the team and vehicle having a crosswise position on the street. The invention admits of goods being lowered down directly from a cart or'truck into a sub cellar through an opening in the sidewalk.

I would remark'that, if necessary or desired, two cars,.B, may be employed, one for convey idg the goods from the cart or truck to the doorway of a building or store, and the other for conveying the goods back in the store.

I would further remark that instead of the Windlass G a lever may be employed for raising and lowering theplatform, and that a rope or cord, K, may be attached to the car or'trnck car or truck B on the ways, for the purpose to serve as a stop or limit the movement of specified.

the same. 2, In combination with the above, the sus- Having thus described my invention, what pended hoisting device G H J, with the plat- I claim as new, and desire to, secure by Letform I attached.

ters Patent-,' is- HENRY A. WHITNEY.

1. The elevated ways A A, arranged in the Witnesses: manner shown, to admit of beingadjusted in M: M. LIVINGSTON,

an inclined nosition for the movement of the G. L. TOPLIFF. 

